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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Carpenter and Small carpenter Bees (Xylocopinae) » Large Carpenter Bees (Xylocopa) » Subgenus Notoxylocopa (Xylocopa Subgenus Notoxylocopa) » Horse-fly Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa tabaniformis) » Xylocopa tabaniformis parkinsoniae
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Bee with mites? - Xylocopa tabaniformis - male
Copyright © 2012 Karen Sprague

Bee with mites? - Xylocopa tabaniformis - Male
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
March 16, 2012
Foraging on flowers at the Houston Zoo - need ID for bee and the objects between thorax and abdomen.
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Contributed by Karen Sprague on 12 April, 2012 - 11:13am
Last updated 13 April, 2012 - 4:31pm

Mites
Sorry I am so late. I saw this for the first time. These are mites. They are beneficial and the bee transports them in an acarinarium. Interesting.
… Beatriz Moisset, 18 May, 2016 - 3:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Wow!
And I am equally late with a thank you. Beneficial mites with their own containment, amazing!!
… Karen Sprague, 5 July, 2019 - 9:46pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 13 April, 2012 - 4:31pm login or register to post comments

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